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Let Them Eat Seed-Cake
Being A Research Project In Period Foodstuffs, And Totally Not A Way To Avoid Writing
Currently, in my WIP, Archie is introducing Horatio to Lady Clarke, his Aunt Sophia, his mother's sister, who raised him from the time he was orphaned at the age of five. It's not long after The Frogs and the Lobsters, so call it 1798. This was several decades ( Read more... ) -
Awesome Vacation of Awesomeness
As I might have mentioned before, due to the extreme generosity of my parents, my teenager and I got to visit Universal Studios Orlando this past weekend over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Short trip report: it was great.
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Adventures in Procrastinatory Baking
I have just about convinced myself that I really DO need to acquire some Madeira and bake a seed-cake, for the rather flimsy reason that my characters (Horatio Hornblower, Archie Kennedy, and Lady Clarke, who is Archie's Aunt Sophia -- I invented HER, at least) are partaking of that right now. Baking seed-cake is probably easier than writing.
So: do ( Read more... ) -
Lucky at Cards, Unlucky in Love
Large post about my trip to Universal Studios Harry Potter coming soon. First, though, have a ficlet I wrote on the plane:
Title: Lucky at Cards, Unlucky in Love
Rating: all audiences
Word count: 240
Pairing: Horatio/Archie
Spoiler warning: None
Disclaimer: Not my characters, not for profit
Summary/notes: An argument over whist and Shakespeare. Written on ( Read more... ) -
Who's circ_bamboo?
Drop me a PM so I can thank you properly? -
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All of this. I've only started using it recently, though I've known about it since its inception. And the fandoms I'm currently writing in ARE tiny ones. It's such a wonderful tool, and all put out there as a labor of love, to give fan-writers and fan-readers a place free of restrictions imposed by companies who want to use our content to sell our ( Read more... ) -
adventures in time wasting, but please to call it research
I am pretending to order Thai delivery in London in order to get the opening lines of a fanfic ( Read more... ) -
It's finished! Matt Devlin Lives, Part 3: The Five Stages of Grief
Matt Devlin Lives, Part 3: The Five Stages of Grief
Fandom: Law & Order: UK
Pairing: Matt Devlin/OMC
Rating: General audiences
Characters: Matt Devlin, OMC, Ronnie Brooks, Natalie Chandler
Warnings: Moderate angst, rather chaste displays of affection, some medical details.
Summary: Although DS Matt Devlin survived the shooting at the end of the Mark ( Read more... ) -
FINALLY
As of about 6, 6:30 PM tonight (while I was at class, acing a midterm), our power came back on. And, with it, the heat! And the internet!
As soon as I got home from class, I took a long, hot shower. I needed it. Despite shadowflyer's generosity with his shower, I had been sleeping in enough layers to get kind of icky.
eternaleponine and I settled in to watch Jamie Bamber ( Read more... )
